"The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do no…"

"I repeat what I said to you back in Russia: you are, in my opinion, the greatest composer of our time."

"A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentr…"

"I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire t…"

"Although it may seem incredible, this cure helped me. At the beginning of the summer I began to compose... New musica…"

"I can respect the artistic aim of a composer if he arrives at the so-called modern idiom after an intense period of p…"

"My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands."

"Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrum…"

"It is as a composer that his name will live longest. He was the last of the colourful Russian masters of the late 19t…"

"Especially dangerous on the musical front in the present class war."